Residential neighborhoods near the Interstate 10 in Houston sit in floodwater in the wake of Hurricane Harvey. Marcus Yam/Los Angeles Times Apple has sent its crisis management team to Houston to assist employees affected by the devastating flooding caused by Hurricane Harvey, including relocating some employees and their families. Soon […]
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Technically Incorrect offers a slightly twisted take on the tech that’s taken over our lives. Shervin Pishegar, right, leaning Uber toward the literary? Patricia De Melo Moreira / AFP/Getty Images Many words have already been expended about the cesspit of soap opera and scandal that is Uber. Few, though, can […]
The Bosch Roxxter offers advanced smart features and app connectivity. Bosch Bosch is yet another appliance maker with big plans for a smart, app-connected robot vacuum. At IFA 2017 in Berlin the company is talking up the new Roxxter automatic floor cleaner. The machine is the first Bosch small appliance […]
The Essential Phone and its add-on 360-degree camera. Josh Miller Essential, a tiny 100-person smartphone company from the founder of Android, just screwed up in a particularly embarassing way. Last night, it accidentally shared personally identifying information — including driver’s licenses — of some customers with others, seemingly as part […]
“Stranger Things” celebrates its 1980s setting with everything from Dungeons & Dragons and fabulously feathered hair (a little ’70s, but OK) to Barb’s Trapper Keeper. So it’s no surprise that it works pretty well as an ’80s-style arcade video game in the show’s latest promo video. The video has that […]
Uber co-founder Travis Kalanick has succeeded in moving an investor lawsuit to private arbitration. James Martin/CNET Uber co-founder Travis Kalanick has succeeded in having a court battle with one of the startup’s early investors moved to private arbitration. Delaware Chancery Judge Sam Glasscock III on Wednesday granted Kalanick’s request for […]
Europe gets all of the fun fridges. The latest that has me inexplicably jealous: the new Bosch Vario refrigerator. With Vario, you can pick from a variety of brightly colored doors to add a little extra pep to your kitchen. Get bored with with the way it looks, and you […]
The ZenBook Flip 14 is the world’s thinnest 2-in-1 with discrete graphics. Asus Well, no one could accuse Asus of holding back at its IFA 2017 press event after it announced dozens of new or updated PCs, components and peripherals. Many of the announced updates to its laptops were simply […]